inverted hat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A háček.
noun
= breve
Example Sentences
- "In Russian the dentals t, d, s and the velars k, g, x become palatalized to č, ž, š […]. (The inverted hat (haček) represents palatalization.)"
- "I’m using PC SAS and would like to get the symbol for infinity in the title of my output. […] When I [hold down the Alt key and enter 236] with SAS, it shows up correctly onscreen; but when it’s printed out, I get an ‘s’ with an inverted hat over it."
- "The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3."
- "evangeʹlical (-nj-) […] The…‘a’ has an inverted hat again; the ‘e’ and ‘i’ in ‘geli’ have inverted hats, making them short."
- "Now, one (obviously) has to have the basic ‘Roman’ alphabet. [¶] Then there are all the diacritical markings (accent, accent grave, dot umlaut, ring, bar, ‘hat’, inverted hat, etc.) for vowels."